Operational Risk Management Senior Analyst

What You'll Be Doing

The Operational Risk Management (ORM) Sr analyst will support the Operational Risk Director in executing the Operational Risk Management program. This second-line defense position contributes to the firm’s overall management of operational risk by overseeing first-line defense activities through objective risk identification, assessment, monitoring, and reporting of the firm’s risk profile. The purpose of this position is to provide leadership, consultation, and support for risk management techniques, practices, and procedures that protect the firm from loss and exposure.

What We're Looking For

• Support key Operational Risk functional areas such as RCSA including related assessment activities through analysis, coordination, issue tracking, and stakeholder follow-up.• Analyze KRIs, risk indicators, root causes, trends, controls, and taxonomy changes to identify themes, improvement opportunities, and risk-aligned enhancements.• Coordinate change requests, documentation, approvals, testing, and implementation tracking across ERM programs.• Maintain ERM/ORM program plans, roadmaps, milestones, risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, and outcomes across various ERM initiatives.• Prepare consolidated status updates, management reporting, agendas, presentation materials, and supporting analysis for leadership review.• Coordinate stakeholder submissions, meeting schedules, reporting timelines, decisions, follow-up actions, and closure of open items.• Assist with stakeholder walkthroughs including detailed documentation of processes, risks and control enhancements to support ERM objectives.• Support products and services enhancements, and other priority initiatives by coordinating requirements, deliverables, and implementation activities.• Assist with external advisor and GRC vendor interactions, research requests, touchpoints, deliverables, and recommendations aligned with ERM priorities.• Develop proposals, options, organizational roadmap analysis, and supporting materials for management review and stakeholder engagement.• Perform other related duties as required.

What You'll Bring

• Ability to speak with every employee level, including executives and the board of directors.• Strong people management, internal consulting, and partnering skills.• Ability to articulate complex concepts into simplified solutions.• Ability to determine how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.• Strong industry participant with knowledge of best practices.

Education & Experience

• Minimum Required: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Management Information Systems or related field.• Minimum Required: 5+ years of risk management/compliance experience and/or financial services industry experience.• Knowledge and understanding of executing the Risk and Control Self-Assessment program (Inherent/Residual risk, Control Design, and Issue Management).

Systems & Technology

• Proficient in Microsoft 365: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio.• Preferred: Experience working with a GRC (Governance, Risk, Compliance) software platform.#LI-JK1

Compensation RangeSalary: USD $100,000.00/Yr. - USD $151,000.00/Yr. Actual salaries may vary, and may be based on several factors, including but not limited to each candidate’s qualifications, skills, and overall competencies for the position. The base salary is one component of Stifel’s overall compensation package for each individual employee. Other benefits and offerings include, but not limited to, discretionary bonuses, health / dental / vision / prescription insurance offerings, Stifel Total Health Connect, flexible spending accounts, tuition & certification assistance programs, paid time off, and much, much more! To view a more comprehensive list of Stifel’s current offerings, please visit https://www.stifel.com/careers/benefits. Applications are accepted until the position is filled. About Stifel

Stifel is more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up.  We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas.  Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients’ money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success.

While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations.  Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more.  Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.

At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off.

Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.